Apollo stage separation

16 mm film of an Apollo stage separation.
Which mission this is from is unclear,,,,

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Saturn
• stage
• separation
• Apollo

[BuzbyWuzby]

I thought that the Apollo 4 unmanned / automated shakedown launch was the only one to carry performance monitor cameras. It's also interesting to note that some of the cameras were not recovered either because they failed to eject, burnt up on re-entry or were lost at sea; just imagine the images they would have contained.

[Synthetrix]

The camera ejection moment is caught in the last few frames of the film. Inside its own small capsule it re-entered the atmosphere and parachuted back into the Atlantic Ocean where it was recovered and the film developed.

[Synthetrix]

This is the view from onboard the top of the second stage (S-II) of Apollo 3's Saturn 1B rocket watching the third stage S-IVB J-2 engine burn to carry the third stage and the unmanned Apollo Command and Service Modules into high Earth orbit for subsequent re-entry tests.

[rasorclips]

@ytmoog "The Apollo 15 mission reports contain no references to cameras on the launch vehicle" , with this said it appears you have references at all to back up your statement either, just that the information was omitted.

[ytmoog]

@rasorclips

The Apollo 15 mission reports contain no references to cameras on the launch vehicle, where as the reports for the earlier unmanned test missions do. Which as the purpose of them was to capture data from the test launches makes sense.

[rasorclips]

@ytmoog "Apollo 15 had no cameras to capture" what references?

[ytmoog]

@rasorclips

It has the wrong number of ullage engines for a Satturn 5. And Apollo 15 had no cameras to capture the seperations.

[rasorclips]

@ytmoog "known that this is not a saturn 5" , you better have evidence to bak up your argument.

[ytmoog]

@rasorclips

That is correct. it is howver known that this is not a saturn 5 and cannot possibly be from Apollo 15.

[rasorclips]

@ytmoog well actually in your description it says you dont know what its from so i thought id fill you in.